The town is literally touching Columbus - but on the Alabama side, and I can see how comps will be tough.

@Eric Bate, I literally just posted about N Mpls, but I haven't gotten any responses on that thread yet.

I can read a million books, and watch a thousand videos, but if there is no one to answer the questions I have, I'm lost.

Literally just talk to people and see if you can bring value.

In any case, the water bill was several thousand dollars and the electrical bill was almost a thousand.

With being literally right next door I would then have a much easier time doing as much of the build myself as possible.

And the acquisition and management fees quite literally won't keep the lights on. 

Here's a Google search with a few thousand examples: https://www.google.com/search?...

There's just so much fundamentally important info about REI that most data don't convey (Zillow discovered this the hard way, when they tried and failed to invest in real estate based largely on data inputs, rather than boots-on-the-ground knowledge).Real estate is literally a physical item, with physical functions, governed by physical realities, and because of that, it can only be fully understood through physical means (seeing properties with your own eyes, experiencing neighborhoods in person, meeting potential tenants face-to-face...or at least on Zoom).

I saw one that needed work and they literally took a picture like standing on the tub looking down in the bathroom with the toilet open and it was not clean it had something in it….